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remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago

Demand a change in leadership, then. Because with Schumer at the helm, this is exactly how things are going to go, again and again, like a time loop.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

Blwrgh. My bad. I only ever saw Vetaw's name on a post here and there and obviously didn't track closely enough. 🥴

Here's some good news for Dems: the average voter absolutely lacks the knowledge of which Senators vote how. What they will remember is top line: Democrats once again fail to protect healthcare, but hold out just long enough to juice election results.

They are building the case against themselves.

I think she's triangulating because she needs to win the Cities and not just out state. Klobuchar has made some bad choices this year on Trump nominees, but her no vote here and on thr BBB has pretty much the same motivation.

The vote today was so bad, Craig came out against it.

It's actually worse, because it looks very much like they held fed workers and SNAP recipients hostage for no pther purpose than improving their own electoral chances. So now they don't just seem weak and incompetent. They look craven and complicit to boot.

The one who just won a seat on the council?

Not technically true. Not a Jeffries fan, but his caucus has held the line pretty well all year. The fire is coming from inside the Senate.

If you think the average voter is using some sophisticated calculus of retirements and insider ball to measure the success of the Democratic party, then you are not in touch with the sense of disenfranchisement that is motivating most of the voting public on both sides.

And why would people keep showing up and voting for Dems at any level if the response to those wins in Congress is to show an abject inability to win legislative fights on the heels of voters making their wishes very, very clear?

A rare moment where they have a recent show of support in an election and actual leverage over negotiations to fix at least 1 issue that will affect millions next year. If they never planned to hold the line, they should have just voted for the CR weeks ago? This is strategic failure and weakness.

What are you even talking about? Your claim is that if they cave now, millions will no longer suffer. My point is that they have caved all year long, and in return there are SNAP cuts in the BBB, healthcare subsidies are gone, federal workers are being fired at a massive clip. This is...

What isn't happening?

What do you think happens to those millions on the other side of this vote? They have already cut SNAP benefits. Healthcare costs are about to skyrocket. They will keep firing federal workers. What is it you think this CR delivers that helps people beyond the most short-term relief?

“I think it’s a terrible mistake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren says of the deal. “People want us to stand and fight for health care, and that's what I believe.” (via Igor Bobic, HuffPo) x.com/igorbobic/st...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.

State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Women make less than men for the same work, we are denied the right of bodily autonomy, and if we marry men, *we* die younger... how about men have empathy for other men and all women, and maybe in practicing empathy they will learn to make friends and have deep connections?

Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler

The father was a U.S. citizen.

But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

I cannot with the way people have decided to blow past credible accusations of child molestation. The man's life was grim even w/out all that and at a minimum you can say he was a grown man who put young children - not his own - in his bed and slept with them, while plying families w/$.

Last night brought good news in many places, and I'm grateful for it. We need good news.

But I do not understand triumphal responses in a country that A) has swung wildly back and forth in voting habits every 2 years for the last 10, and B) continuously learns the wrong lessons after each election.

In light of the stunning size of the blue wave, I’m also thinking of all the important races that Dems left on the table by not running a candidate:

What you want is to cling to the idea that because slavery in the US ended, it somehow requires looking away from the facts of what slavery was and what it says about the culture that tolerated it. So have at it. Stay in denial. But I don't have to.